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Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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This paper cites $\pi_0$: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models $\pi_0$: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control

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This paper cites FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models

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This paper cites Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World

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This paper cites Olsson, N.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Olsson, N

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Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Bricken, A

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This paper cites Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Features in Language Models.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Features in Language Models

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This paper cites Auditing language models for hidden objectives.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Auditing language models for hidden objectives

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This paper cites Transformer Feed-Forward Layers Build Predictions by Promoting Concepts in the Vocabulary Space.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Transformer Feed-Forward Layers Build Predictions by Promoting Concepts in the Vocabulary Space

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This paper cites Lindsey, W.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Lindsey, W

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This paper cites Pohland and C.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Pohland and C

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This paper cites Glanois, P.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Glanois, P

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This paper cites Transformer Feed-Forward Layers Are Key-Value Memories.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Transformer Feed-Forward Layers Are Key-Value Memories

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This paper cites Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models

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This paper cites RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control

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This paper cites PaliGemma: A versatile 3B VLM for transfer.

Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models PaliGemma: A versatile 3B VLM for transfer

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Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

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Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models Khazatsky, K

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Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models GLU Variants Improve Transformer

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Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models To assign meaning to each value vector, we project it into the model’s output token space using the language modeling head, as described in Section 3

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Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models The full OPEN VLA model contains 352,255 value vectors across all trans- former layers

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Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models We apply cosine-based k-nearest neighbor (kNN) clustering to these semantic embeddings using the cuML GPU-accelerated library

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Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models place penguin 17 in basket

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Open-Loop Planning, Closed-Loop Verification: Speculative Verification for VLA cites this paper.

Open-Loop Planning, Closed-Loop Verification: Speculative Verification for VLA Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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Interpreting Video Representations with Spatio-Temporal Sparse Autoencoders cites this paper.

Interpreting Video Representations with Spatio-Temporal Sparse Autoencoders Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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Local Linearity of LLMs Enables Activation Steering via Model-Based Linear Optimal Control cites this paper.

Local Linearity of LLMs Enables Activation Steering via Model-Based Linear Optimal Control Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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Event-Grounded Sparse Autoencoders for Vision-Language-Action Policies cites this paper.

Event-Grounded Sparse Autoencoders for Vision-Language-Action Policies Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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Act on What You See: Unlocking Safe Social Navigation in Vision-Language-Action Models cites this paper.

Act on What You See: Unlocking Safe Social Navigation in Vision-Language-Action Models Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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Learning What to Say to Your VLA: Mostly Harmless Vision Language Action Model Steering cites this paper.

Learning What to Say to Your VLA: Mostly Harmless Vision Language Action Model Steering Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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Inference-Time Robot Behavior Steering through Physically-Aware Reconfiguration of Task-Structure cites this paper.

Inference-Time Robot Behavior Steering through Physically-Aware Reconfiguration of Task-Structure Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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Behavior Uncloning: Distilling Mode Redirection into Policy Weights without Inference-Time Steering cites this paper.

Behavior Uncloning: Distilling Mode Redirection into Policy Weights without Inference-Time Steering Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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Early Warning Signals for OpenVLA Failure under Visual Distribution Shift cites this paper.

Early Warning Signals for OpenVLA Failure under Visual Distribution Shift Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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Present but Not Remembered: Auditing How Frozen VLAs Encode, Deploy, and Steer Visual History cites this paper.

Present but Not Remembered: Auditing How Frozen VLAs Encode, Deploy, and Steer Visual History Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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What Do They See? Interpreting Complex Road Scenarios Through the Eyes of Vision-Language-Action Models for Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicle Learning cites this paper.

What Do They See? Interpreting Complex Road Scenarios Through the Eyes of Vision-Language-Action Models for Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicle Learning Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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Multimodal Model Diffing for Feature Discovery and Control cites this paper.

Multimodal Model Diffing for Feature Discovery and Control Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

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